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Frances Bannerman (born Jones) (1855 – 1944) was a Canadian painter and poet. She painted in oil and watercolour and made black and white illustrations.


Biography

She was born in
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in 1855. She was the youngest daughter of Lt. Governor Alfred G. Jones and Margaret Wiseman Stairs. She grew up in what is now the Waegwoltic Club. Bannerman received her early art education from her mother and from Forshaw Day, one of the founding members of the
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, in Halifax. In Paris, she studied at the ateliers of Edouard Krug and François-Nicolas-Augustin Feyen-Perrin, where she developed her skill as a figure painter. While living in Paris, Bannerman was one of the first North American artists to be influenced by Impressionism and began to use a brighter colour palette and depict light while working en plein air, although she preferred a more academic approach in her brushwork. She began exhibiting her work in London, England in 1882 and was a regular contributor to shows, including those of the
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and
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, until 1892. In 1883, she exhibited at the Paris Salon. One of the works she submitted, ''Le Jardin d'hiver'' (''The Conservatory''), is said to be the "first Canadian subject ever to be shown in that venue". In 1882, she was the first woman to be elected an Associate of the
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, and only the second woman to be a member of that academy (the first being Academician Charlotte Schreiber). In 1886, at age 31, she married Hamlet Bannerman, a London painter, in Halifax and that year they moved to Great Marlowe, England.Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Due to her health, she was forced to give up painting and in 1899 published a volume of her verse, entitled ''Milestones''. Her best-known poem is "An Upper Chamber", which is included in the ''
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''. She moved to Italy in 1901, and stayed there until the Second World War forced her to leave. She returned to Torquay, England, where she died in 1944.


Works


"Le Jardin d'hiver" ("The Conservatory) (submission to the 1883 Salon)Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Collection
* Her art is exhibited at the art gallery of The Rooms in Newfoundland.


References


Bibliography

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External links


Canadian Woman Artists: Artists DatabaseArt Gallery of Nova Scotia

Bannerman
in SFU Digitized Collections,
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, Coll. Canada's Early Women Writers (with photograph) 1855 births 1940 deaths Artists from Nova Scotia 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian women writers Canadian women poets Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts {{Canada-poet-stub